Linkage

W. T. Tutte's WWII cryptography work (G+)

Cube into rhombic dodecahedron dissection video (G+)

Calvin Seibert's geometric sand castles (G+)

Paco Santos' Hirsch counterexample wins him the Fulkerson Prize (G+)

Tessellating calligraphy (G+)

MacTutor History of Mathematics website honored by the London Mathematical Society (G+)

The backlash against using numerology to measure research quality gains strength (G+)

Turns out that folded brain surfaces and crumpled paper balls obey the same scaling laws relating uncrumpled area, crumpled size, and surface thickness (G+)

The Chronicle of Higher Education debunks recent claims that anti-women discrimination in academia is a thing of the past (G+)

Academics deserve weekends too (G+)

Why it's a good idea to keep reposting these link roundups here rather than trusting G+ to stay alive (G+)

Graphene kirigami nano-scale springs (G+)

Germans to Facebook: allow pseudonyms! (G+)

Visualizing the Heawood graph (using Wikipedia illustrations by me and others; G+)